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Help! How do I rewrap FCP Mov files for Edit on PC (premiere)
I have a pc with premier installed and I shot a half-hour film (hours and hours of footage) last year. I captured it all on FCP mostly using Log and Transfer with an XDCAM (although an hour of it was shot on a JVC 100u and captured through a JVC deck)
Now, I am sitting here one year later with a harddrive filled with FCP mov files that wont open in Adobe Premiere on my PC.
How do I rewrap them so I don’t have to convert them? What program is available for this and what format/container should I rewrap them into?
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6 Replies
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I am no FCP expert, but i believe that the Final Cut Studio has “compressor” which is used for that sort of thing. As far as format, Ppro should be able to read .mov just fine. (as long as you have Quicktime installed)
Good Luck!
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Not what I’m looking for, but thanks for the effort.
a little background:
Final Cut packages transferred files from the camera into a .mov file that only computers with final cut can read
a pc with premier will not be able to read my footageCompressor will not be able to simply rewrap the footage, instead it will recompress everything and it will take a very long time.
I don’t want to recompress the footage, I just want to change the .mov container to something I can read on a PC and hopefully make that workflow available via this forum
Anyone know how>?
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Roby,
I’ve been in that situation, and I can tell you that there is not quick and easy button, especially if these the likes of EX1/3 footage, which means a complex file architecture. I will usually ask the FCP editor to do a batch export to either Quicktime Animation (no loss but large files), or PhotoJpeg (usually no visible loss, smaller files)
If on the other hand, these were wrapped as Prores, you can download the PC codec here.
Here’s a post that may give you a few pointers on other options:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/142/866101
Good luck !
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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[Vince Becquiot] “If on the other hand, these were wrapped as Prores, you can download the PC codec here.”
Hi Vince,
I don’t have Premiere on a PC, so I can’t test this, but which exact codec are you talking about? Is it the “Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 for Windows”?
Thanks.
Bob C
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Hi Bob,
Yes, that’s it. And I guess wrapped wasn’t really the correct term here…
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
My computer has no problem with prores now. Really its the XDcam footage causing the problem.
CalibratedQ works but its costs $100 or so.
Instead I’ve since brought them to an apple computer and completely converted them to photoJPG
ohh welll
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